>>717370451
I suppose in your own contrived view of things, that's true.
Generally when people say something is contrived in fiction they mean it's obvious that the fiction is contrived.
To me a lot of the fun of fiction is in it temporarily lifting you from your experience of real life and getting you to believe in its fantasy. If something about a work of fiction forces you to confront the fact that it is contrived/not real/fake, etc. in most cases I'd consider that to be bad.
Star Wars' red vs. blue morality is bad, and the contrivance started in Empire Strikes Back.
In the first film, Luke is young, hotheaded, energetic, heroic, and you want to see him succeed. He's stuck on the farm, and the Empire is this looming threat of oppression that becomes a very real threat.
He stands up against it, rescues a beautiful princess, blows up the Empire's biggest weapon, and gets cheered for a job well done.
In Empire the Jedi forbid Luke from helping his friends on Bespin because they hadn't fully planned out sequels for the first film, and needed to contrive some drama. So they invented the "light" and "dark" side of the force.
And then Star Wars became very shitty.
